ORWELL (George).

Nineteen Eighty-Four.

First American edition, early printing. 8vo. Original taupe cloth with red and black decoration, variant blue dust jacket. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.

£250.00
ORWELL (George).
Nineteen Eighty-Four.

A later printing, without ‘First American Edition’ to the copyright page

Provenance: From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus, with his neat pencilled ownership to the front free endpaper. Angus was the co-editor of Orwell’s Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters published in 1968 and also later contributed to editing the enormous 20-volume edition of Orwell’s Complete Works published 1997-8.

A good copy only, with significant wear to dust jacket, some repairs verso.

Stock No.
260708